Also included in the box from Marisa, Visions of Sugar Plums was released by Canadian indie polish maker Girly Bits as part of the Season of Sparkle collection in November 2012. Described by creator Pam as "a deep plum jelly base with iridescent and shifting glitter," the translucent plummy purple base color is deep but vibrant and unmuddied, with hints of indigo to it. Suspended within is an almost bewildering assortment of gleaming variously-sized metallic hex and square glitters in copper, blue and silver at least, some of them with a light-trapping iridescence that flashes pale green, aqua, magenta and any number of other opalescent hues. The mix of colors, and the copper especially, is wonderfully complementary to the purple base. The glitters effect a marvelous multicolored sparkle as light plays over them that has a magical, dreamy quality -- you could swear that there were faeries in there!
Application was a treat. The glitters in this three-year-old bottle of polish are still perfectly suspended, and the jelly base still fluid, if a bit thick for my taste and skills. I added polish thinner and all was well. Glitter payoff was excellent with a plentiful assortment of glitters that distributed easily over the nail with no extra fiddling necessary. I had only one stickup and a few instances of protrusions over the free edge, which I eased back onto the nail as I wrapped the tip. Pigmentation was also excellent, especially for a jelly, with evenly opaque, wearable coverage in just two coats -- from past reviews, I'd expected it to require more than that and in retrospect, I think I should have used another coat for the photos. Cleanup was easy and straightforward. Visions of Sugar Plums dried naturally in good time to a shiny finish with some texture from the glitter. I used a coat of Plump Up the Volume to begin smoothing out the surface and finished the job with a generous topcoat of Seche Vite.
Photos show two coats of Visions of Sugar Plums over treatment and basecoat with a surface-smoothing topcoat of Pretty Serious Plump Up the Volume followed by a topcoat of Seche Vite.
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If I ever had a sugar plum dream, I'd certainly hope it would look something like this!
love,
Liz
Just as I imagined- look how enchanting this is on you! Your pictures really capture the full dreamy color-shifting nature of the glitters. I actually think the two coats are perfect! The Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is my favorite Christmas song,and I thought this polish, at once deep/floaty, rich/ethereal, was such a poetic manifestation of sugar plum glamour ♡ Happy Sixth Day of Christmas!
ReplyDeleteThis is such a lovely and classic glitter jelly, the mix of glitters is simply divine! Sheerness at the tips, despite carefully wrapping them, is what makes me think that three coats might have been better, but other than that I'm ok with two. I love your description, I miss your adjectives!
DeleteIt's been so long since I've had a glitter polish like this on my nails... but that will change soon enough when I get my rather large order from Hare! Excitement!